Trackside Treasure

Friday, September 28, 2018

CN Installs CWR on the Kingston Sub, 1980

In early 1980, strings of continuous welded rail (CWR) were dropped alongside the north and south tracks of the Kingston Subdivision . The...

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Picton Train Show, September 2018

On Saturday, September 15 I was County-bound! A whirlwind trip to Picton for their 30th annual train show. First stop - Bombardier's...

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Reg Shares Some More Photos

Every once in a while, Reg Aitken says, "I've been out doing some photography" and next thing I know, he's sending some...

Saturday, September 8, 2018

CN's Hanley Spur - Industry History

Working our way south along CN's Hanley Spur , here are some capsule histories of the rail-served industries along the line (dropping...

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Rather Sketchy Profile

Eric: Eric Gagnon was born in Montreal, Quebec and has lived in Kingston, Ontario most of his life. Much time was spent trackside when not in school, college or practising as a medical laboratory technologist. Married with two children, Eric is also an HO-scale modeller, musician, avid reader and blogger, having launched his Canadian railfan blog Trackside Treasure in 2008. Eric's first book Trackside with VIA:The First 35 Years, published in 2011, was followed by two more in 2012: Trackside with VIA:Cross-Canada Compendium and Consist Companion. In 2017, Eric published his fourth book, Trackside with VIA - Research & Recollections, followed by his two-volume Trains & Grains series in June, 2018, then two books on Kingston's waterfront history - Smoke on the Waterfront in November 2020, and Stories on the Waterfront in August, 2021.

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